Microsoft Corp, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, is an American
multi-national tech company. It has its headquarters located in Redmond,
Washington DC. The company is known for developing, manufacturing, licensing,
supporting, and selling computer software, consumer electronics, personal
computers and operating systems, and services. Microsoft is reportedly the
sixth largest information technology company (third-largest now by the end of
2017), following Samsung Electronics Ltd and Apple Inc., in the modern-era.
Microsoft Corp has assets worth $182 billion and its net worth is said to have
reached almost $500 billion. Windows 10 is the most recently developed and
launched OS by Microsoft Corp.

Windows 10, a personal operating system, developed and launched by
Microsoft, the system belongs to a part of the Windows NT family. The windows
10 is reportedly the best and most user-friendly operating system developed by
Microsoft, following Windows 98, Windows XP, and Windows 7. The Windows 10 is used as the OS base of various products
from Microsoft like personal computers, tablets, phones, mixed reality,
embedded systems, Xbox One, and the Surface Hub. The Windows 10 comes with the
inbuilt installer of DirectX 12 and WDDM 2.0, significantly enhancing the graphics
capabilities of the operating system. The user is provided with the best gaming
and virtual experience.

Here are 5
best ways to optimize your Windows 10, and extract its full potential:

If you think that your personal computer, phone, tablet, laptop, or
any other gadget based on the Windows 10 OS is lagging, you should try out
these simple steps to boost your system's capabilities and deliver you its best
performance. Try out these 5 steps to make your device function smooth and less
prone to performance issues and system crashes.

Change your power settings :

In case you’re using the Power saver plan of Windows 10, you are
most likely slowing down your device. This particular feature offered by
Windows 10 reduces the device’s performing capabilities, in order to save
energy. Changing the Power saver plan from High Performance and Balanced will
surely provide your device with an instant power boost.

To do it:

Go to the Control Panel.

Then select hardware and
sound.

There select the Power
option. (There are usually two visible options: Balanced and Power saver).

Disable the
programs running on startup:

This might be one of the biggest reason for your device’s sluggish
performance. Your programs and the over-all the performance of the device will
be automatically slowed down if there are numerous applications running in the
background. These applications might not be of the user’s immediate importance
or the device may never use them at all, the best thing to do would be to
delete these applications, the once built-in can’t be deleted so it’s better to
Force Stop them.

To do it:

Start by launching the
Task Manager.

You will the main running
applications there.

Click on More Details to
check the list of the applications running in the background.

Go to the Startup tab to
see the applications that are automatically launching themselves during the
start-up, there you will see an option called the ‘Start-up Impact’. This
option will likely show you the applications, running in the background, having
the most impact on your device’s performance.

Disable them from the
‘Disable’ option.

Clean out your
registry:

The main feature that tracks and controls the overall look and
functioning of the Windows, is the Registry. The registry includes all the
information about the location of the stored programmes, the DLLs they use and
share, recommended programs to open the specific type of files, and many other
very important feature of the Windows. Best not to do the cleaning yourself as
cleaning totally from the Registry is quite complicated and the feature itself
is a very fragile part of the OS.

The Auslogics Registry
Cleaner is the most recommended application to clean your registry, to do it:

Backup your registry
first.

On the left side of the
app screen, you will be able to see the various kinds of Registry issues that
you want to clean-up.

Now, click ‘Scan-now’ to
identify the issues and make fixes in Registry.

You can also use the
‘Scan and Repair’ option, but this will makes fixes in the Registry without
consulting you.

While you are cleaning
your Registry, make sure that the ‘Backup changes’ option is ticked.

Disable shadows,
animations, and visual effects:

Windows 10 comes with a wide range of visual applications, they are
very entertaining when enabled, goes very easy on the eyes too, but these can
be one of the greatest reasons for your Windows 10 based device’s sluggish
performance. It's very easy to turn them off.

To do it:

In the Windows 10 search
box, type ‘sysdm.cpl’ and hit enter.

This will launch the
‘System Properties’ dialogue box, go to the advanced tab and click on
‘Settings’ in the performance section.

Disable the desired effects.

Launch Windows
troubleshooter:

This is the easiest and best built-in way to identify the causes of
your device’s sluggish performance.

To launch the
troubleshooter:

Go to the Control Panel.

Go to System and
Security.

Go to Security and
Maintenance.

Go to Troubleshooting.

Run maintenance tasks.

Click next when the
troubleshooting screen appears.

Conclusion:

Optimizing your Windows 10 is easier than ever before, this is a list of the 5 most simple yet powerful steps to extract the full potential of your Windows 10 based device. The sluggish performance will never be an issue again.

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